Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A language family including the Tai subfamily and other languages of southern China and Southeast Asia.
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- proper noun A major
language family spoken in large parts ofSoutheast Asia .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai language family.
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The Tai-Kadai languages are thought to have originated in what is now southern China and some linguists have proposed links to the Austroasiatic Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan language families.
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Thereafter, one or several groups of people migrated North, mixed with previous settlers there and, finally, formed various populations we now refer to as Austronesian, Austro-Asiatic, Tai-Kadai, Hmong-Mien, and Altaic.
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